The Bruce effect revisited: is pregnancy termination in female rodents an adaptation to ensure breeding success after male turnover in low densities?

Pregnancy termination after encountering a strange male, the Bruce effect, is regarded as a counterstrategy of female mammals towards anticipated infanticide. While confirmed in caged rodent pairs, no verification for the Bruce effect existed from experimental field populations of small rodents. We...

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Autores principales: Eccard, Jana A., Dammhahn, Melanie, Ylönen, Hannu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2017
Materias:
Behavioral Ecology–Original Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5596041/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28791488
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00442-017-3904-6

Internet

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5596041/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28791488
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00442-017-3904-6

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